Odd one out?

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Odd one out?
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Volunteering great grades!

• Some comments now, rest read privately.
• Who will type up from the test
• questions about texts 10 Oed and Lear?
• comments about characters?
• Lear 2, 3, 4 / 56
• Oedipus 4, 5
• theme and imagery stuff 7, 8 (Oed and Lear)?
• sim/diffs Oed 9?
• Best definitions and info from Oed 3 and 6?

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• LO We are learning how to notice and discuss the
  dramatic structure and purpose of tragedy, in the
  context of Ancient Greek theatre.
• SC be able to list elements of tragedy and
  those in Oedipus, give an opinion about the
  purpose of those elements in affecting the
  audience in Oedipus.

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Tragedy!

• In teams, make a list - what do you need in a
  drama to call it tragedy?
• Whats it for?
• How does Oedipus fit this?

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Concepts change over time Tragedy?
Ancient Greece Aristotles Poetics
Protagonists disastrous acts Bad judgement (hamartia) Pride v Gods hubris Prot recog hub ham anagnorisis Limited plot, place and time unities. Calamitous outcome catastrophe Audience emotional response catharsis
Latin Drama
e.g. Seneca Parades of horror Classical gods - Roman Focus on duty Political Rhetorical style
Middle Ages
Simplified Christianity Noble man falling from high glory God punishes wicked and rewards good Wheel of fortune Princes trusting earthly power punished by G
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Romantic
Germans e.g. Goethe world of imagination frees us from binds of society hierarchies of religion and power. Prot sensitive individ striving for self-expres World does not recog validity of personal feeling and vision Sensibility not royal blood makes you a tragic prot Romantic re-interps of Shakes Faust/Hedda Gabler etc
Rennaissance change contradictions
Not just royal prot political Sub-genre revenge Display and horror from Latin drama Christian morals Protestant indiv relat. with God But often set in pagan times Wheel of fortune But man is individual - own power and responsibility
Now global/nihilism/conflict
Early 20th C tragic flaw character criticism and start of psychology (A.C. Bradley) Later 20th/21st C tragedy of the common man. Life is pointless (nihilism) godless (secular)? Capitalism, social class, global politics Man destroying the world. Tragedy of failing to act. Global politics. Public figures making private mistakes?
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Tragedy Homework

• Everyone find one example of a tragic story/hero
  from a different author (not s or WS) for each
  period and bullet point tragic elements that fit
  the concept of tragedy in that period.
• Ancient Greek drama (e.g. Euripides)
• Rennaisance drama (e.g. Marlow)
• Modern drama (e.g. Samuel Beckett)
• Real life Tiger Woods? Wayne Rooney?
• Extensions Can have extra from same playwright
  (Sophocles or Shakespeare) but

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EQ to reflect on/for Fri 24th

• Although Classical Tragedy causes catharsis
  in the audience, it nevertheless keeps us at a
  distance from the protagonists real suffering.
  
• Discuss this statement with reference to King
  Lear, in the light of your reading of Oedipus.

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Once upon a long, long, time ago
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in a land actually not that far away
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the birthplace of democracy and cheap holidays
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And theatre as we know it
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Someone famous was about to put their foot in it
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Dramatic Structure function of sections?

• Prologos (sets out problem) Priest O, C.
• Parados Chorus enter STAY ON STAGE
• Episode 1 (Act) scenes 1 OCH, 2 OT
  CH
• Stasimon 1 (Choric Ode) hunted hidden?
• Episode 2 sc 1 CCH, 2 OC, 3 JO.
  CH
• Stasimon 2 CH to Z law, pride, godly help?
• Episode 3 sc 1 J Gs, 2 MC C, 3 OJ
  CH
• Stasimon 3 CH Short - Yay, find out tom! Ta!
• Episode 4 one scene only - SHMO
  CH
• Stasimon 4 CH lament happiness to misery.
• Episode 5 sc 1 MR, 2 O-Is!, CO, COkids
  CH
• Exodos final CH speech (lessons) and exit.

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Who, what, where, when, how, why?
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Lets Perform

• So, to perform our tragic drama, we need
• An audience
• A round stage with platform at the front
• Professional main character actors
• Large masks so we can tell which one they are
• A chorus of amateurs
• Chorus masks, so they dont just look like mates
• Costumes for everyone
• Tissues, wine, comedy to pick us up afterwards..

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• LO We are learning how to notice and discuss the
  dramatic structure and purpose of tragedy, in the
  context of Ancient Greek theatre.
• SC be able to list elements of tragedy and
  those in Oedipus, give an opinion about the
  purpose of those elements in affecting the
  audience in Oedipus.